Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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